_We are born into a culture that is the outcome of an ethnic and cultural collision. Because of our geographic location, various civilizations, empires, traditions, and styles of governments have affected our unique culture, as well as our perception of art. My current collection explores this legacy of cultural influence on our friends and family. We are all made up of the different influences and elements that have been put together in our societies and in our families, over time, creating the configuration that makes us who we are. Ultimately, as humans, many of us spend much time asking ourselves, ‘Who Am I?’, and this is certainly very true of women, whom I have gravitated to portraying in this collection. Who are we, in relation to our families, our friends, our histories? And how do those influences impact and resound with our own uniqueness? Like the sounds of our voices bouncing off the objects in a room without which no sound could be heard, our personal identities are closely woven into those around us, without whom we wouldn’t be who we are._

Ethnic Collection "Gold Ethnic - Native"

Ethnic Collection "Silver ethnic - Red Flowers"

Ethnic Collection "Gold Ethnic I"

Ethnic Collection "Silver Ethnic"

Ethnic Collection "The promise"

_Crowds is the precursor to the Ethnic Synergies collection, which is one of the reasons I wanted to exhibit it alongside Ethnic Synergies. Crowds is a reflection of what I perceive when a gathering of individuals from various origins, ethnicities, and cultural heritages comes together, by design or by happenstance, to connect, enjoy, and mingle, or simply to move about amidst each other. The colours I’ve chosen depict the energy and motion they emit. Our energies are a reflection of our lives, and while we are all different, we are all, ultimately, similar. We may hold different beliefs, but in the end, we are all part of a crowd, each day constructing our own societies’ distinct traits, never as a mirror image of someone else and always unique in our essence. And because some have particularly stood out from the crowd at various times in history, the dance of their personalities has helped to create our world today._ 

  

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